South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-05-13

tue tSSdiuS Ct Memofiat Lay, june D..
The bishops OF the Methodist Epis
copel Church South are q y in annual
session at Louisville. by.
The United Statos Senate sub.
committee appointed 70 Investigate
the Indian 1raderships have gone TO
the Indian Territory to begin Their
| work OF investigate,
The steamer LIE Champagne COLI
ded . 9TH aud sank tho steamer Vile
de lilo. In The panic which ensu ed
SO persous were drowned.
The California steamers Seminole
and Charmer will race from New York
to San Francisco. 5000 miles.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies
has passe a bill establishing trial
by jury.
The earthquake of TIE Sd instant
killed $50 people at Ba;rispe. in the
State Of Sonora, Mexico Tie earth.
quake Was accompanied by Volcanic
eruptions.
At the sale Of thoroughbred year.
lings of the Runnymede and Cold.
stream breeding farmet ~ Paris, Ky,
Friday, 81 head sold for $50, 400, the
highest price paid for any one animal
being SO, 100.
Twelve persons were drowned at
a negro bspt 'zing IN New Orleans by
the giving wsy of wharf rating.
A hot sirocco blew the whole wee
throughout Hungary, parching vegek
ta,ion and rendering it inflammabIe.
BY the consequent fires, 400 houses
we're destroyed, and 5000 people
rendered homeless.
A pac6sge containing $40 900 in
money was stolen from tue Domin ON
Express Company's Office in Ottawa,
Can, Saturday.
In Fl ht between license men and
prohibitionists al Dunbar, Nebraska.
caus d by the toms going dry"
two of tie former were fatally In.
jured.
General Greciy, chief signal officer
has arrang TO issue n special week
ly bi lletin placing before tie public
each Monday morning reliable infor-
stion relative to the climatic con-
duions in the agricultural districts
of the country.
The Homestead Glass Works. at
Homestead. Pa, bur ned on Sunday.
Loss, $4,000.
Grace Bianton, colored woman,
was lynched a. West Carroll La.
for burning a store.
James Grant. the novelist, ia dead.
Judge Clark, of the County Cour,
OF Frederick county, Va has set aside
the verdict in the case of Il. A. Ride,
nour, convicted of the murder OF An.
drew Broy, on the ground Of the sep.
afstion of the jury and tho receipt
OF communications which the sheriff
dill not examine.
There is deficit Of from seventy
five TO one hundred thousand dollar,
in the funds Of the Will County Uu.(
National Ba k Cashier Knowilon
is in Canada.
Extensive forest fires are raging In
the Ca,ski!ls.
The Southern Baptist Convention.
the largest religious body in the
South. convened in louisville, XIV.
Friday.
The Black Diamond Coal Compary
OF kanswha county, this State, has
made an assignment.
The new differential rate OF the B.
Il y. Will not 60 into effect until the
l7th instant.
The Arthur statue committee have
determined To erect a statue to The
late PresideEt in New York as we'll
as nj the cemetery in Albany.
A postoffice has been established
at Glen Dale, Marshall county, this
State, with Edward Il Zane az post
master.
Tie Coal River Lumber and Min
Ing Company organized in Charles.
ton, this State, with a paid.up capital
Of $4,000. Colone +. J. Harrison
was elected president.
The bill granting charter to the
Mineral Railroad Company to con
s,ruct railroad from Strashure to
moorefield has passed. both houses of
the virginia legislature.
Fearful thnnde st rms occurred in
Southern and Centrsl New York and
Northern Pennsylvania on SATURDAY
and Sunday,causiDg the loss of several
lives by lightning and great des,ruc ,
lion or property hv hipb vatara